2016 -2017 Loading & Unloading Survey Report Form

This year’s form requests the same information as past survey's (for fatality information only). The form may be filled out online and attached to an e-mail. Please include as much information as possible for each fatality incident reported, and please use a separate form for each fatality. If you are uncertain about reporting a fatality, report it. However, please separate the information on the questionable fatality from information on other fatalities occurring in the same incident.

Again, thank you for your continued cooperation and interest in the survey. Your assistance is truly appreciated. If you have questions about completing the form please call (785) 296-3551, or write to the address listed above.

Loading & Unloading Surveys

The following information is a collection of more than three decades of nation wide statistics on children killed in the loading and unloading "zone" or area around a school bus.

Report number one depicts the number of children killed, since 1970, by the front and back of a school bus, a vehicle passing a stopped school bus, the light condition and the size of the bus.Click here for report (PDF)

Report number two depicts the sex and age of the child as well as whether the child was going to or coming from school.Click here for report (PDF)

Report number three depicts weather conditions, the day of the week and the month a child was killed while in the loading/unloading zone.Click here for report (PDF)

Report number four exhibits a breakdown of children killed in the loading zone of a school bus by each reporting state since 1979.Click here for report (PDF)

Report number five depicts a breakdown of children killed in the loading/unloading zone of a school bus by location, weather, type of roadway, and if the child dropped an object, fell down, or caught a piece of clothing or object in the door or handrail.Click here for report (PDF)